Korea Club was pretty fun today. I arrived late, and everyone had already gone to the gym by the time I arrived at the room for the Taekwondo section of the class. They were doing some sorta sideways kick, practicing it at least.

I may have joined late but I quickly figure it out lol. Everyone was in groups of two, but since I joined late I had to be in a group of three since it was odd. Someone stood in a T-Pose holding out foam pads for us to aim at. The aiming is still a little difficult but I got it down for the most part.

Then we got to the punching bag. That was super fun to kick! I even started doing 'Kiais', when you sorta shout to increase power in the move. We just did simple stuff. Got in a stance, lift our knee straight up, tilt it sideways and point our other foot back, and kick. Then bring your leg back in, and set it down straight, then swap legs.

I got really good at it, and so did a few others. So then the teacher said we could try and combo into the second kick instantly if we felt confident enough. The girl in front of me tried... and fell on her ass... hard. She laughed it off, but I think she may have been genuinely embarrased. Then it was my turn.

I did it flawlessly on my very first attempt. I even made the kiai and went "HAH HAH!" Everyone cheered, and the teacher was even impressed. I really didn't feel like I did it all that good, but after seeing everyone else I guess I should feel a little proud.

It reminds me of the time during gym when we had an obstacle course where we raced a partner. I wanted to win really badly, so when it got to the somersault bit I kinda just... accidentally did a frontflip... I guess I am naturally good at gymnastics and the like. I definitely have the body for it. I might try something like that out sometime in the future. Well... I guess I already am haha.

Oh boy... and then we got to the language section. I have difficulty understanding the teachers accent, especially when she is saying words in korean lmao. I can not tell when she is saying a sound like H, B, P, D, G, K, whatever. That's not her fault. But it's just difficult. Luckily the two kids who sit next to me are total Koreaboos so they are very helpful haha. We have 30+ pages that we can work on if we want. They are just reading names of objects and practicing writing. I have no clue what I am writing other than 학생 means 'student', 네 is 'yes', and 아니 is 'no'. 

I'm good at the reading. I still need my reference sheet, especially for the vowels. But they all look really similar, sometimes I confuse consonants for compound vowels because they look similar. For the most part I have got it down though. The writing is easy as hell too. I cannot wait until I actually learn what I am writing, and how to actually speak and have a basic conversation in Korean. But gotta take things slow I guess. 

Overall I like it allot. It's really fun, the people are pretty nice, the Taekwondo teacher is really helpful and impressive, and the language teacher is super nice and funny. There is even a girl from South Korea to help when the Teacher is busy, plus a few Americans that are well versed in Korean. They help allot when I get stuck. 

My mom said I might not be able to go to every single class because of her work, which is understandable but still bums me out quite a bit. Hopefully I can friend one of the people and see if they can help get me a ride or something when my mom can't take me. My mom is still against it, but I think my dad is actually proud of me. Impressed at least. He hasn't really been that in a few years since I did Cross Country. So that's something nice.

Can't wait until next week! I'm so excited haha thanks for reading! <3